#showyourstripes for Rare Disease Day 2023 Gallery!
Thanks so much to everyone for getting involved with this year’s Rare Disease Day! It’s been amazing how many of you have shown your stripes and they all look fantastic! […]
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M4RD and Medscape Education release new ITN Film
Happy Rare Disease Day! We can finally reveal the special segment recorded with Medscape for Rare Disease Day. We would like to thank everyone involved in making this happen, it […]
Searching for the Stripes by Alexandra Adams
With my head hung down, trying to hide my morning face away from the scurry of staff hurrying between the shift changeover, I scan the floor for those familiar patterns; […]
M4RD Rocks (the hotel next to) the 02!
On Tuesday Lucy was invited to present alongside Sioned Preece at the UK Astrazeneca conference held at the Intercontinental right next to the O2 in North Greenwich! Astrazeneca has recently […]
From Genetics Undergraduate to Paediatric Registrar
by Dr Alexandra Downes, Paediatric Registrar My Rare Disease journey began in the second year of my Human Genetics degree at University College London. I still remember to this day […]
The Dangers of ‘Optimism Bias’
Dr Lauren Ferretti is a paediatric registrar in London with a life-long commitment to charity fundraising and an interest in genetics and whole genome sequencing. Through working with M4RD as […]
Do you #daretothinkrare for Freshers?
We are M4RD and we #daretothinkrare Medics4RareDiseases is a registered charity started by medics, for medics! In fact, M4RD started out as a university society at Barts & The London. […]
M4RD celebrates commitment to real Living Wage
Medics4RareDiseases has been accredited as a Living Wage Employer. Our Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at M4RD receive a minimum hourly wage of £9.90 in the UK or […]
12 Tips To Learn About Rare Diseases
Agata Oliwa has recently finished her medical degree at the University of Glasgow. She has started the Specialist Academic Foundation Programme this summer in the North East. Agata aspires to […]
Medics4RareDiseases becomes a CIO
On 11th July 2022 we received the exciting news from The Charity Commission that Medics4RareDiseases Ltd had been converted to a Charitable Incorporated Company (CIO). Although working as a not-for-profit […]